Originally built as a fortress as one of King Uziah’s early construction projects, Qumran (Secacah or “city of salt”) is located in a marlstone hill in Judean Hills of West Bank above Dead Sea.

Just as there are nearly 3,000 pregnancy resource centers throughout the United States offering counseling, family support, and practical resources to mothers before and after their pregnancies, one Israeli ministry, Efrat, has a very similar mission in the Holy Land, which is believed to have among the world’s most liberal abortion laws.

Ein Gedi (Ein – spring, Gedi – goat-kid referring to ibex native to the area) is an Indigenous Jewish town by Dead Sea, an oasis in the Judean Desert, and part of newly founded Israel since 1949.

Time to Know is an Israeli startup company that has tried to revolutionize education, believing that some of the previous educational styles of a teacher standing at the front of a classroom with a blackboard may be outdated in the more digitally captivated 21^st century.

Despite much depressing news about various economies worldwide, Israel’s economy is actually flourishing comparatively since giving up a more socialistically structured economy and returning to capitalism.

A rather lively crowd started singing and dancing in Jerusalem’s Mamilla Quarter,a neighborhood just outside the Jaffa Gate leading into the Old City, and was joined by troupes of Hora dancers.